This template is for having shorter links to a Wikisouce document when the link is identical to its label. It had one mandatory parameter, and two optional:
{{{1}}}
: the page title on Wikisource to which you wish to link.{{{2}}}
: the text that the template displays. Default is {{{1}}}
.lang
: the ISO language code of the target Wikisource. Default is en
.A similar effect can be accomplished using the pipe trick: ]
is converted to ]
during the pre-save transform, which renders as Chicken. Only one interwiki prefix can be stripped in this way. ]
transforms to ]
.
* {{S|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire}}
gives:
* {{w|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare}}
gives
*{{w|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare|lang=fr}} *{{w|lang=fr|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare}}
gives a link eventually rerouted to the French-speaking Wikipedia:
Because of its simplicity, the template can be substituted using subst:
{{subst:w|William Shakespeare|Shakespeare}}
gives
]
However, substituting
{{subst:w|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire}}
gives an unwiedly duplication of content the template is here to avoid in the first place:
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